Figuring the Maternal in Political Theology: a round table with Richard Boothby

Richard Boothby is a leading Lacanian theorist, who has recently published Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (Northwestern University Press, 2022). This session will provide an opportunity to hear Prof. Boothby speak about this work and its relation to the question of the figure of the mother in the production of political order, a conversation adjunct to his “Notes on the Most Radical Possible Theology” in Embracing the Void.